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The Key To A Happy Wedding? Spend It With Your Spouse

Your wedding day is made of memories; be sure you're making them with your partner.

Obviously, there is so much more to a happy marriage than spending time together at your wedding. But metaphorically speaking, couples who are able to prioritize spending time with each other on a day filled with so many potential distractions are setting a healthy precedent for their future.

If a family member or good friend asks for a moment with you or your spouse, grant them your attention but stay close with your spouse and remain together. If a bride and groom separate during the party, however briefly, it may be more difficult than one would expect to break away from subsequent conversations and find each other again.

Remember, your friends and family are coming to your wedding to wish you well in your new life. If they do not get tons of quality time with you on this special day of celebration, they will surely understand!

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10. The 40-Year-Old Virgin

Most weddings end the same way: Everyone leaves. The magic ends pretty quickly. This wedding ended with a song and dance number, which is something I've always wanted to see just happen in real life.

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9. American Wedding

This wedding included a scene where the wedding cake gets covered in freshly shaved pubes. I'm glad I wasn't invited to this wedding, but I enjoyed watching it.

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8. Bride of Chucky

While the human characters got married in a cheap chapel (yawn), two serial killers' souls renewed their vows while still stuck in doll bodies. Then they killed a bunch of people.

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7. The Corpse Bride

Hey, before you place a wedding ring on something, make sure it's not the hand of a murdered corpse seeking revenge. You might get stuck having to solve her murder before she'll anull the marriage.

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6. The Marriage of Cyclops and Phoenix from X-Men

His eyes are always firing lasers and she's possessed by an immortal fire bird, and they're tying the knot. Also, they invited a bunch of monsters to the wedding.

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5. The Hangover

First of all, that picture just looks like fun. Add to the fact that the majority of peopled in attendance were roofied (in a non-creepy way) and then went on to go kidnap a tiger, that all adds up to the best wedding ever.

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4. Old School

This wedding has a drunken rant against love, a band that adds vulgarity to classic love songs, and Vince Vaugn gives a speech about how awful marriage is while the bride walks down the aisle. If this was a real wedding, and you were there, it would be your favorite wedding ever.

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3. Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

This not-so-classic take on Robin Hood ends with the evil sheriff trying to force Maid Marion to marry him while Robin's rebel forces storm the castle. It's the most tense a wedding can ever get.

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2. Ted 2

Ted is a living, boozing, pot smoking teddy bear. Ted 2 will apparently lead off with him getting married. To a lady. Yeah, that's worth watching.

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1. The Wedding Singer

In The Wedding Singer, Adam Sandler plays a wedding singer who is left at the altar by his fiance. As you can imagine, he's probably not in the best frame of mind to sing at weddings after that. He still does, and spends the reception insulting all the ugly people in attendance. It's the best.

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Most weddings end the same way: Everyone leaves. The magic ends pretty quickly. This wedding ended with a song and dance number, which is something I've always wanted to see just happen in real life.